Attachment for faucets



' April 23, 1925.

M. D. STALDER ATTACHMENT FOR FAUCETS Filed'lian. 29, 1323 4 INVEN TORPatented Apr. 28, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

MERLE D. STALDER, 0F LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

ATTACHMENT FOR FAUCETS.

Application filed January 29, 1923.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MERLE D. STALDER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lincoln, in the county of Lancaster, and State of Nebraska,have invented new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Faucets, ofwhich the following is a specification.

An object of this invention is to produce a drinking fount for ordinarywater faucets.

A further object is to produce a device of this character which may bereadily attached to or removed from any ordinary construction of waterfaucets.

A still further object is to produce a drinking attachment for faucetsprovided with a filtering means.

To the attainment of the foregoing, and other objects which will presentthemselves as the nature of the invention is better understood,reference is to be had to the drawings which accompany and which formpart of this application.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a view showing the improvement attached to afaucet.

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

In the drawings the numeral 1 designates a water faucet of the ordinaryconstruction, to which the improvement is attached.

The improvement comprises a pipe memher 2 having angle ends 3 and 4which extend in the same direction. The inner end 3 of the pipe 2 has inits mouth a frustoconical compressible member 5 which is designed toreceive therein the outlet mouth of the faucet 1. Around the pipeextension 3 there is arranged the rounded end of a U-shaped member. Itis, of course obvious that this member is not necessarily U- shaped, butthat the same comprise rearwardly extending parallel arms 6. Slidable onthe arms 6 there is a block 7 having its upper face at the centerthereof concaved and having openings at the sides of the concavity. Theblock also has a threaded opening in a line with the center of theconcavity through which there is threaded a screw 8 having its outer endprovided with a handle and having swivelly connect- Serial No. 615,693.

ed to its opposite end a cross sectional U-shape clip 9. Passing thruthe remaining openings are the threaded arms 10 of a yoke 11. Engagingthe arms 10 are nuts 12. By adjusting the nuts the yoke is clampedaround the top and sides of the faucet, and by adjusting the screw 8 thepivot 9 is brought into frictional engagement with the underface of thefaucet. By such arrangement it will be noted that the improvement may bereadily and adjustably supported from the faucet.

The outer angle branch 4 of the pipe 1 has arranged therein areticulated cage 13 for a filtering medium 14, whereby water passingthrough the pipe will be effectively filtered. The cage 13 has its lowerend coneshaped and is removably arranged in the branch 4 of the pipe 2.

The pipe branch 4 has screwed thereon a cap 15 whose outer face maybe'rounded and provided with apertures 16. In the cap there is a screen17 to prevent any particles of the filtering medium which may escapethrough the cage flowing with the water through the apertures 16.

The branch pipe 4 has secured thereon a basin 18 whose upper edge isdisposed only slightly below the top of the cap 15. The basin isprovided'with a water outlet 19, surrounded by a threaded extension inthe nature Of a nipple on which is screwed a coupling 20 for a flexiblepipe 21 that leads to the sink or other outlet for the water from thefaucet 1.

My improvement is especially designed for household use, so that personstherein may drink filtered water from a faucet in a sanitary manner andalso whereby the employment of the ordinary drinking vessels will bedispensed with. The construction is comparatively simple, may be readilyattached to or removed from a faucet and maybe successfully marketed ata reasonable cost.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new is A means forattaching a drinking fount to a faucet, comprising a U-shaped memberarranged around the neck portion of the pipe element of the drinkingfount in which the non-threaded end of a faucet is received,

a block having openings through which the arms of the U-shaped elementpass, a yoke arranged over the body of the faucet having threaded armspassing through openings in the block, nuts screwed on said arms incontact with the block. a screw centrally threaded through the block across section ally U-shaped element swivelly connected with the screw,contacting with the under "fa-Ce of the faucet body and forced in en- 10gagement therewith by the adjustment of the screw.

In testimony whereof I aflix my sipnature.

MERLE D. sTALbER.

